Make a Lining for a Laundry Basket
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Every laundry basket should have a liner. With a washable cloth liner in your laundry basket, you can easily transfer dirty clothes to your washer by simply lifting the liner out of the basket without having to touch the clothes. If you use a wicker basket for laundry, then a liner also protects your clothes from snagging on the inside of the basket.
Instructions
Make a Liner Pattern
1
Place your basket on the butcher paper. Trace around the bottom of the basket using the pencil.
2
Lay the basket on one of the wide sides on the butcher paper and trace around the side and bottom edges. Do not trace across the top of the basket.
3
Remove the basket from the butcher paper. Using the ruler, trace a 5 inch vertical line up each of the top corners of the pattern. Draw a horizontal line to connect these lines. This top edge of your pattern will create a flap that will fold over the top of the basket and lie on the outside.
4
Lay the basket on the butcher paper with a narrow side (one of the sides with a handle) down. Trace around the bottom and side edges. Make a dot with your pencil to mark each end of the handle.
5
Remove the basket. Extend each side of the liner pattern an additional 5 inches up. Draw two additional 5 inch vertical lines that start at the points that mark the end of the handles. Draw horizontal lines connecting each corner of the liner pattern to the end of the lines coming up from the handles. Leave the area above the handle blank. Your liner will have an opening for the handles.
6
Add a 1/2 inch seam allowance on all sides of each pattern.
